NEWS
Memur-Sen has successfully negotiated a leveling up of severance bonuses and index rates of retirement pensions
11.10.21, Monday
Ali Yalçın, who continues his visits to the provincial representations of Memur-Sen across the country, participated in the trade union activities organized by the Memur-Sen representation of Manisa province where he welcomed the leveling up of severance bonuses and index rates of retirement pensions which will reach their maximum ceiling.
On the occasion of the program organized by the Memur-Sen representation of Manisa province, Ali Yalçın said, "We have achieved a great trade union victory, from now on, severance bonuses and index rates of retirement pensions will reach their maximum ceiling. Memur-Sen welcomes this major breakthrough that has been expected for almost 10 years," he stated.
Recalling the many efforts and sacrifices of public employees who saw their purchasing power fall drastically over the period of the previous collective agreements that Memur-Sen had refused to co-sign two years earlier, Yalçın commended the benefits resulting from the current collective agreement and especially the gains achieved through the branch agreements that have raised public employees' salaries by 32 to 40 percent for the next two years, hailing "a workable compromise," which includes, among other things, "provisions on improvements in terms of allowances and welfare benefits. ", he specified.
While highlighting the importance of the social advances achieved by the Memur-Sen Confederation for the 2022-2023 biennium, Yalçın particularly welcomed the 18,313 new memberships recorded during the past month of September, which play a key role in strengthening the Memur-Sen Confederation, "I welcome all our new members who have joined us", he claimed.
Incidentally, pointing to the discrepancies between collective bargaining in the public and private sectors which is at the heart of the difficulties of wage bargaining, Yalçın said, "There are notable differences in the regulations, especially on the legal duration and frequency of collective bargaining which is held every 2 years over a period of 1 month for the public sector, while workers in the private sector renegotiate every year, over a period of 2 months," adding that: "The purpose of collective bargaining is to ensure a certain social justice and the conclusion of quality agreements presupposes having time to negotiate, this conception of the right to collective bargaining must be challenged and that is why the law No: 4688, absolutely must be modified," he declared.
Deploring the inadequacy of the legal time limits for collective bargaining, Yalçın said, "Even though the work continues late into the night due to lack of time, most of the negotiation points do not have time to be addressed and therefore the whole negotiation process is affected to the detriment of workers," he concluded.